The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday adopted a decision on provisional release from detention of former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic on health grounds.
Milutinovic must undergo certain medical procedures at home, and already 10 September, he will arrive in Serbia. At home Milutinovic will be under round-the-clock electronic surveillance of local police, which is a condition of his provisional release. The ex-president would return to The Hague to 2 October this year.
Milan Milutinovic was president of Serbia from 1997 to 2002. He - one of the accused to 6 took place in the Hague Tribunal with the July 10, 2006 trial. At the same case with him taking place: former vice-premier of Yugoslavia Nikola Shainovich, former Yugoslav army chiefs of Staff, General Nebojsa Pavkovich and General Vladimir Lazarevich, ex-commander of forces Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia in Kosovo Sreten Lukic and former Yugoslav army general Dragoljub Oydanich.
All of them indicted for war crimes against the Albanian population of Kosovo in 1999, crimes against humanity and the forced deportation of about 800 thousand civilians. At the time, all six surrendered to the ICTY voluntarily.
The trial against them has entered a final phase. The Prosecutor's Office ICTY demanded punishment for the accused from 20 years to life imprisonment term and the defence, in contrast, claim exemption, believing that they were unable to prove guilt. As expected, the sentence will be imposed in November this year.
Previously, Milutinovic said that he considered himself innocent, and called the charges against him ICTY "unreasoned and formal." "I do not consider myself guilty and I think that it is a mistake" - he said.
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